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Ratcliffe's Top 300

By Jeff Ratcliffe &bullet;
Aug 13, 2014

Do you smell that? Football is in the air, and the fantasy draft season is about to kick off. That means it’s time to get to work, and there’s no better time than the present to start building our draft boards.

To do so you’re going to need overall rankings that combine all positions, but putting these together is by no means an easy process.

Owners in IDP leagues are always faced with a unique set of challenges, but none perhaps more important than establishing how the IDPs compare in terms of fantasy value to offensive players.

It’s not too hard to find overall rankings for offensive players, and you can check out my top 100 overall rankings for IDPs in our Draft Guide, but a quick Google search for “offense/IDP combined rankings” yields surprisingly few results. So I sat down and put together the following combined rankings. To provide the most balanced and versatile set of rankings, I based this on half-point PPR scoring and balanced IDP scoring: